ENCOUNTERS

A Retrospective Exhibition, Eight Years of Creating Social Change in BostonSEPTEMBER 21, 2017 - MARCH 3, 2018

Urbano Encounters was a retrospective exhibition chronicling Urbano’s eight years of bringing together local youth and professional artists to create public participatory art projects as a catalyst for personal transformation, community cohesion and social change.

Co-curated by Colombian-born curator/artist Julián Serna and Urbano's Founder and Executive Director, Stella Aguirre McGregor, the exhibition featured various multidisciplinary, socially-engaged projects that have taken place at Urbano, including public interventions in the City of Boston, collaborations with professional artists, and the narratives of Urbano’s Youth Artists.